Virtua Striker 4 Trailer

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Sega's Triforce update to its popular soccer game debuts.

By Anoop Gantayat

Sega made use of the JAMMA arcade show, now running in Tokyo, to unveil the latest entry in the Virtua Striker series of soccer titles. Like last year's entry, the new Virtua Striker 4 runs on the GameCube-powered Triforce arcade board (which kinda makes sense, since the game is made by Amusement Vision, the folks responsible for Super Monkey Ball and F-Zero).

Virtua Striker 4 adds quite a bit to previous titles in the series. A fourth button, dash, has been added on top of new gameplay systems such as a long pass guage. Three separate buttons are used to select a strategy for your team, changing the team's formation or setting players to offensive or defensive modes. A new player change system has also been added, allowing you to sub in players during half time. Also new is the game's stamina system, which has been redone since the last title and requires that you have balanced play, lest your players die.

On top of all these changes are some improvements to the superficial realism of the game. Visuals have been improved as has the game's use of real world players. You'll find 1,044 players from 36 countries appearing with their real names. The Japanese national team appears with player faces fully modeled using official JFA.MAX data.

We're not sure if Virtua Striker 4 will ever see release outside of arcades, but the media section for this story, which contains a trailer filmed from the JAMMA show, will allow you to get a look at the title either way.